Enjoy

[steve]

Have you ever wondered what the true enjoyment of life is?

Seems like such an unreachable ideal, doesn't it.

As an ideal, it certainly lacks any taste for me. Because that would cause me to look in to the future.

Do you really want to enjoy life, really enjoy it?

Then that is all you need to do. Just suck it in. Allow the here and now to possess you. Be totally aware of the moment. Forget about the report that is late (because it will still be late tomorrow), forget about the deadline that you have in 4 days (because it will still be do in 4 days), just soak up this very moment. Here the sounds, absorb the sights, smell what needs to be smelt, and so on. Let your mind play around in your present like it is the only thing that exists. Everything else is just noise in your eating of your life, everything except that which you will to come in. Now tell me how do you feel.

Are you afraid that this drug of eating life up now, at this very instant, can become addictive. Well, you guessed right. And guess what, there is nothing wrong with that. So soak it up and leave the future for the future. When the time comes, you will get that done too, and as you have just soaked up this moment, you can also soak up those other moments.

LIVE IN THE NOW!

Steve

[lighter]

Zen has landed: )

Viva living in the moment....

[moonlight52]

Hi Steve ,

There is a book called "Be Here and Now" by Richard Albert (Ram Dass)
It is a really good book for being in the now.
It was written over thirty years ago it is still in print in the here and now......

love to you Steve ,

moonlight

[moonlight52]

Oh Yeah I almost forgot..........   


It is now again

love

moon

[motheroffour]

Living in the now!  Wonderful concept.  Trying to apply it.  My now is cool because I don't feel angry anymore and I am not in the constant relentless pain of the past days.  Don't feel so imprisoned by the past.  And I am learning to like myself more. 

But this is also a place of merkiness as well.  Can't go back....don't know how to make my ideas for future realities today.  Have to be patient and satisfied with today.   Feels like a place of limbo for me. Which isn't my favorite place.  So much in this space is undefined for me and hard to orient to.  So, your message to be in the now and enjoy confuses me. It sounds great.  And so I look in my now and I try to enjoy and be grateful for the blessings of today.  Maybe I make the mistake of wishing for the future and compare it to the today.  I don't know.  But I am trying apply this.....would really like to feel the abundance that is in the now. But kinda feel the nothingness of the luke warm water.....

--mof4

[Hopalong]

Hi Mo4,
I don't think being in the present means you don't plan for your future.
For example, here you are making a last of small practical steps you want to take in order to change your future.
You're all focused on your list and you're thinking clearly about what it would take to accomplish this, or change that.

See? You're in the present, but taking care of the business of life (which includes planning for your future).

Then, more being in the present is involved when you being doing each thing.
You just do each thing as you do it.

Hope that made sense...not sure it did,

Hops